Leah Laiman (born August 29, 1946 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an American soap opera writer and romance novelist.
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Born | (1946-08-29) August 29, 1946 (age 75) Tel Aviv, Israel ![]() |
Occupation | Writer, novelist |
Laiman got her start on daytime television during the early 1980s at General Hospital. Laiman succeeded former Head Writer, Pat Falken Smith, along with novelist Thom Racina.[1] The pair began working on the show during its heyday, including Luke Spencer and Laura Webber's widely publicized 1981 wedding, which included notable Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor. After three years on GH, Laiman followed Racina to Days of Our Lives to work with Sheri Anderson where the three wrote several stories, including Bo and Hope's wedding in England, and co-created the characters of Steve "Patch" Johnson and John Black. In 1986, Laiman became sole head writer and created the character of Jack Deveraux and further developed the popular romance of Steve Johnson and Kayla Brady.
After Days of our Lives, Laiman moved to One Life to Live, where she stayed as staff writer from 1990 through 1997 and served as head writer from 1990 to 1991 [citation needed] and then again from 1996 to 1997. In 1998, she took a job at the ailing NBC Daytime serial Another World. The show was cancelled in June 1999. Her next job was at As the World Turns. In 2000, Laiman was fired from ATWT and turned to writing novels for five years. Laiman was rehired on As the World Turns in 2005 as an associate head writer.
In 2020 she was one of the recruits for a fiction app named "Radish" which had $63m of funding and it was opening an office in LA. The soap writers recruited included Laiman, Addie Walsh, Lisa Connor and Jean Passanante.[2]
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Preceded by | Head Writer of Days of Our Lives (with Sheri Anderson: December 3, 1984 – November 10, 1986) (with Thom Racina: December 3, 1984 – November 18, 1986) November 19, 1986 – March 16, 1989 |
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Preceded by | Head Writer of Guiding Light (with Stephen Demorest, Millee Taggart and Nancy Williams Watt) (with Patrick Mulcahey: June 6, 1994 – August 1994) June 6, 1994 – November 1994 |
Succeeded by Stephen Demorest |
Preceded by | Head Writer of Another World (with Jean Passanante) July 1998 – June 25, 1999 |
Succeeded by none |
Preceded by | Head Writer of As the World Turns (with Carolyn Culliton) June 1999 – June 12, 2000 |
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Preceded by | Head Writer of One Life to Live (with Jean Passanante and Peggy Sloane) April 1996 – December 1996 |
Succeeded by |
Preceded by Hogan Sheffer Jean Passanante |
Head Writer of As the World Turns (with Jean Passanante) (with Christopher Whitesell: May 25, 2005 – October 17, 2007) May 25, 2005 – January 24, 2008 |
Succeeded by Christopher Goutman (WGA Strike) |
Preceded by Christopher Goutman (WGA Strike) |
Head Writer of As the World Turns (with Jean Passanante) April 18, 2008 – October 5, 2009 |
Succeeded by Jean Passanante David Kreizman |